A Hindu ascetic or holy man: standing, wearing a saffron robe and with a metal rack (?) placed around his neck. Gouache painting.

The man has long dark hair and beard and is decorated with a pattern of three horizontal white stripes painted on his forehead, upper arm, above the elbow, on the elbow and at the wrist; he wears three strands of beads around his neck, and carries beads in his left hand and a small candle (?) in his right